Thursday, May 16, 2013

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Happy birthday and many happy returns Anna Chan and Colin Wong. Born on the same day, across the years. On this day in 1943, one particularly daring mission was launched called Operation Chastise, aka Dam Busters. Also, in 1960, the first working laser was made, fully 6 years before Star Trek Phasers were shown. A lot to live up to. But you were born to do it.
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Australians usually choose governments, but that order is evidently reversed under Swan’s rule. Despite the nation’s latest deficit, Wayne is giving loads more of your money to the ABC so that it can replicate leftist US programming:

The ABC will design news and current affairs shows for young people as part of a range of ideas made possible by $90 million of new government money.

ABC managing director Mark Scott said he would ask a team of journalists and digital and entertainment experts to find creative ways to deliver news to children and teenagers.

Mr Scott cited the popular US satirical programs The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report as examples of shows that melded news and entertainment in a package that appealed to younger audiences …

‘‘We want to be relevant to all Australians, not just older Australians,’’ Mr Scott said. ‘‘Younger audiences are interested in news ... but they don’t particularly want it formatted and delivered in a way that it would’ve once been delivered to their parents.’’

If the ABC genuinely wants to be “relevant to all Australians”, it might look at categories besides age. It’s hand-out time for luvvies:

Online website the The Conversation has also received a boost in funding of $2 million over the next four years.

I was thinking about this issue a lot over the last couple of days because I was thinking what if when I was here last time, I had said oh well, these are the numbers in the budget paper but we don’t think we will necessarily get there. We think they could be derailed by something that might just come, a killer satellite might come along or it won’t happen.

Tim Blair – Thursday,May 16,2013 (2:20am)

I came across your article in the rag you call a newspaper and noted your views on Canberra. I realised pretty quickly that you obviously do not appreciate the fact that most people in Canberra, with the exception of the Federal politicians chose to settle in this lovely city and that it’s anything but a f..... dump. Obviously you prefer to live in a smog-filled environment and spend up to two hours a day commuting to and from work …

Tim Blair – Thursday,May 16,2013 (2:13am)

Tony Abbott tonight
announced enough savings to start to look serious. In an amazing switch,
that includes reserving “the right” to adopt all Labor’s savings
announced yesterday as an “emergency” measure - which seems to include
the baby bonus.
He said:

- he’d continue the carbon compensation package, even after scrapping the carbon tax
- will delay by two years the ramp up of compulsory superannuation (a saving for business).
- he will discontinue additional income support payments for benefit recipients

Abbott says his announced savings so far amount to $5 billion a year
(but only on the Budget as it was before Labor’s proposed savings).
But then he says he “reserves the right” to adopt all Labor’s announced
savings as a temporary measure to “meet the Budget emergency”. (That
means scrapping the baby bonus.)
He says he will also not implement any of Labor’s spending announcements
“unless specified”. He will keep the the NDIS, however. Unfortunately,
he will keep his parental leave scheme.
Says he will have a committee of audit to look into the books
(presumably as the Newman Government did, using Peter Costello, giving
him an excuse for bigger cuts).
Abbott’s speech here.
From the speech:

A Coalition government will keep the current income tax thresholds and
the current pension and benefit fortnightly rates while scrapping the
carbon tax…
We will have a once-in-a-generation commission of audit so that
government is only as big as it needs to be to do what people can’t do
for themselves…
We will start work within 12 months on Melbourne’s East West Link,
Sydney’s WestConnex, Brisbane’s Gateway Motorway upgrade, Adelaide’s
South Road, and Tasmania’s Midland Highway, as well as key roads in
Perth and parts of the Bruce Highway…
The Coalition has already announced that we will rescind the increase to the humanitarian migration intake ...
We’ve announced that we’ll reduce by at least 12,000, through natural attrition, the size of the Commonwealth public sector ...
We’ve also announced that we’d scrap Labor’s green loans scheme for projects that the banks won’t touch.
Tonight, I confirm that we won’t continue the twice a year supplementary
allowance to people on benefits because it’s supposed to be funded from
the mining tax and the mining tax isn’t raising any revenue.
As well, we won’t continue the low income superannuation contribution
because that’s also funded from the tax that isn’t raising any revenue.
I announce that we will delay by two years the ramp up in compulsory
superannuation because this money comes largely from business – not from
government – and our economy needs encouragement as mining investment
starts to wane and new sources of growth are needed.
These measures alone will produce nearly $5 billion a year in savings
which is more than enough for tax cuts without a carbon tax.

Abbott’s big surprise:

Many of the measures in this budget are objectionable, the attacks on
Medicare; the abolition of the baby bonus which the government had
promised never to touch; robbing Peter to pay Paul on education ; and
forcing more businesses to do the tax paperwork monthly, not just
quarterly.
But thanks to Labor’s poor management over five years, there is now a
budget emergency. Hence the Coalition may decide not to oppose any of
them; doesn’t commit to reverse any of them; and reserves the option to
implement all of them, in government, as short-term measures to deal
with the budget emergency Labor has created.
Far from cutting to the bone, we reserve the right to implement all of
Labor’s cuts, if needed, because it will take time to undo all the
damage this government has done.
By keeping, if needed, all Labor’s budget cuts – and – by not
implementing any of their budget spending measures unless specified, we
will achieve the first duty of every government: namely, to preserve the
nation’s finances.

Labor will attack, of course, not least on the super announcement.
Conservatives will moan about the parental leave scheme, the failure to
scrap the useless $3.2 billion “direct action” plan to cut emissions
and the weak cuts to the public service. But Abbott has this now tied up
and posted.
UPDATE
Having together blown all our money, the thieves fall out:

GREENS Leader Christine Milne has savaged Labor’s Budget and labelled
Wayne Swan an “austerity freak”, in her official Budget reply before the
Senate.
Senator Milne said the Gillard government’s Budget, handed down on
Tuesday night, failed to “present a coherent vision of where the country
needs to be in 10 years’ time or how we face the challenges posed by an
increasing global population in a rapidly warming world”.
“It is a finance plan without a broad vision beset by confusion and contradictions that makes this Budget fail,” she said.

The waves are slowly seeping over Kiribati, which is at the frontline of the climate-change-induced rise in sea levels striking
low-lying nations all over the world. Formerly part of the Gilbert and
Ellice Islands — a British protectorate until the mid 1970s — Kiribati
is lower, frailer and more defenceless. It may be the first nation to
enter an end game against climate change.
Kiribati’s leaders now face wrenching questions: How many of its 100,000
people will need to leave? Where will they go? How will it feed those
remaining? And, as its islands become uninhabitable, can Kiribati remain
a nation at all?

Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.
Islands
in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among
those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation
and sediment.
The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by
comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years
using historical aerial photos and satellite images.
Auckland University’s Associate Professor Paul Kench, a member of the
team of scientists, says the results challenge the view that Pacific
islands are sinking due to rising sea levels associated with climate
change.
“Eighty per cent of the islands we’ve looked at have either remained about the same or, in fact, gotten larger,” he said.
“Some of those islands have gotten dramatically larger, by 20 or 30 per cent.
“We’ve now got evidence the physical foundations of these islands will still be there in 100 years.”

Take the most obvious example. As we all know, a council occasionally
goes astray by a few million dollars, an inexplicable brothel permit and
a close friendship between the town planner and the charming assistant
of a colourful racing identity.
What to do? Simple. The responsible state government suspends the
council and temporarily employs a pack of financial dobermans to fix the
mess…
But what happens when the Wollomboon Council is a solemnly recognised
constitutional entity? Mayor Simony will speed off to the High Court,
claiming the state has no authority over his postage stamp principality…
We are told by the responsible minister, Anthony Albanese, with only the
faintest rictus betraying his inner hilarity, that the referendum is
necessary to put to bed doubts raised by the High Court over the funding
by Canberra of certain council programs.
In the profound words of Spartacus, please.
There is no decision of the court stopping these programs…
On the commonwealth side, it is all about power. If it can channel money
and programs through hundreds of puny councils, it can ignore those
pesky states with their complicating parliaments and voters. They mean
you.

In the letter (Shadow Attorney General) Senator Brandis says if Mr
Thomson is telling the truth about the alleged deal, those responsible
may have breached two Commonwealth laws.
‘’It would appear those persons conspired or attempted to conspire with
the intention of causing a loss to the Commonwealth, contrary to section
135.4 of the Criminal Code Act 1995,’’ the letter states.
It also appeared that they ‘’offered to confer a benefit with the
intention of influencing candidature of Mr Thomson, contrary to section
326(2) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918...”
The Opposition this morning attempted to suspend proceedings in the
Parliament in order to compel Mr Thomson to divulge who in the Labor
Party allegedly attempted to make the deal with him.
The motion was negated with 67 yes votes to 72 nos.
But Government Leader of the House Anthony Albanese said claims raised by Mr Thomson were ‘’not at all’’ a serious matter…
The ALP’s NSW branch general secretary Sam Dastyari denies the claims.

The Opposition lied -
or was badly mistaken - about why it denied a “pair” to Labor MP
Michelle Rowland to let her leave Parliament tonight to attend her sick
daughter.

Mr Pyne, the manager of opposition business, claimed on Thursday morning
that opposition chief whip Warren Entsch ‘’was not aware [Ms Rowland]
had a sick infant until this morning when he read it in The Daily
Telegraph’’.
‘’If we knew that Michelle Rowland had a sick child on Monday morning
Warren Entsch would have said to her, ‘you should go home today’,’’ Mr
Pyne told journalists.
But
Ms Rowland showed Fairfax Media a letter that proved Mr Entsch knew
about her daughter’s illness when he rejected her application.
In the letter dated Wednesday, May 15, Mr Entsch wrote to Labor’s whip
Chris Hayes: ‘’I am writing to you in relation to your request to
provide a ‘pair’ for Ms Michelle Rowland, Member for Greenway due to her
child being unwell . . . The Opposition will not provide a ‘pair’ for
the Member for Greenway on this occasion.’’

The Opposition is now in fast reverese:

Mr Entsch said that ‘’if Ms Rowland’s child is sick, then she should
leave the parliament immediately and a pair will be granted’’.

Labor ministers rounded on the Coalition over the issue during media interviews on Thursday morning.
Health Minister Tanya Plibersek told ABC radio the Coalition’s refusal
to grant Ms Rowland leave was the ‘’best example ever that they don’t
care about modern families’’.
Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury told Sky News that Mr Abbott wanted
people to believe he was committed to policies that support women, but
that was not the reality.

The Coalition was wrong and sneaky. That is not to say Labor is any better.
UPDATE
Reader Bigpeteoz:

Michelle Rowland
tells us that the opposition are heartless because it has blocked her
from returning home to her sick child. Her husband has time off from
work to look after the sick child, it should be in good hands.
The child became sick on Mother’s Day, Sunday the 12th May, with a fever and vomiting. She did attend parliament on Tuesday.
Why the fuss now, except maybe it is a misandrist ploy to paint Abbott
as a misogynist, using a woman and sick child as bait in a feeble
attempt to yet again smear.

UPDATE
The ABC’s The World Today makes this the top item of its political coverage. Naturally.
And again, Rowland is still there, giving interviews. Why hasn’t she gone home to her sick child?

THE “stolen generations” myth has made us leave Aboriginal children to
be bashed, raped and killed. In fact, it’s hurt more children than were
ever proved stolen just for being Aboriginal.
I’ve often been told mine is a “racist” position, but perhaps the deniers will at least listen to Adam Giles.
Giles rejects being racially typecast as the “first indigenous Chief
Minister” of the Northern Territory, but his heritage does license him
to say what desperately needs saying.
He says he’s astonished only one Aboriginal child in the NT has been adopted in the past decade.
“You mean to tell me when we’ve got all these alleged cases of chronic
child sexual abuse, children running around on petrol, going on the
streets at night sexualising themselves in some circumstances, and
there’s only one permanent adoption, for fear of Stolen Generation? That
is not standing up for kids.”
That, he says, must change.
The worst about Giles’ comments is that they’re called “controversial” by the media.
“Controversial?” Taking a raped child to safety and giving them a loving
home is controversial? Shouldn’t it be controversial to leave them?
Apparently no, which is why the “stolen generations” theory is deadly.
The “stolen generations” were best defined by Professor Robert Manne:
Children of “mixed-descent” rescued “not from harm ... but from their
Aboriginality” by authorities who wished “to help keep White Australia
pure”.

Trap. Wedge. Trick. Ploy. All these words have been used to describe Wayne Swan’s latest federal budget…
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Julia Gillard and her Treasurer
had unsuccessfully applied a pincer movement on Abbott over a proposed
extension of the Medicare levy to pay for DisabilityCare… He had, of
course, confounded the government ... when he backed the NDIS levy…
All was not lost, though. By definition, the 0.5-percentage-point
increase to the Medicare levy would not pay for the whole scheme, a fact
Abbott repeatedly pointed out…
That opened the opportunity for a second wedge in the form of painful
cuts to existing spending to guarantee the remainder of NDIS funding…
Many in Labor believe that for Abbott, cutting the baby bonus and family
payments will prove to be a bridge too far. Indeed, they’re banking on
it…
Abbott believes the government is again manouevring for a more damaging
claim ... being the charge that he is not a ‘’fair dinkum’’ backer of
the new disability program.
In other words, if Abbott blocks the budget measures to close off the
baby-bonus and trim family tax benefits, he will be putting the very
financial viability of the $14.5 billion DisabilityCare in jeopardy.

TONY Abbott will tonight leave open the prospect of supporting the Labor
spending cuts and tax increases that pay for DisabilityCare in a budget
reply speech aimed at sidestepping Wayne Swan’s fiscal booby trap.

Gillard’s tears yesterday elevated disability care as an issue, with
Labor hoping to contrast Gillard’s passion with Abbott’s alleged
hard-heartedness.
Of course, it would be mean to even suggest those tears weren’t genuine.
Strangely, though, even ABC host Jon Faine this morning estimated that a
third of his (largely Left-leaning audience) were sceptical.
Surely Labor wouldn’t be that cynical, that craven.
UPDATE
Barrie Cassidy, a former Labor media adviser and friend of Tim
Mathieson, attacks Jon Faine on ABC radio today for even mentioning that
listeners are suspicious of Gillard’s tears.

The ABC will pick up an close to $100m in extra funding with $59.4m to
go to news and current affairs and $30m for online content distribution,
over three years. Meanwhile, SBS has received an additional $30m over
five years…
Online website the The Conversation has also received a boost in funding of $2 million over the next four years.

Spreading the state media’s reach into-online publication is a direct
attack on Fairfax, which needs the exact same audience to pay for its
own product if it is to survive.
Why is Labor starving Fairfax like this? I suspect it’s because they
fear it will fall to Gina Rinehart, so can be cut loose already.
Behold, then, the rise of the state media in Australia - the propaganda arm of the Big Government on which it relies. The friend of the Left whose support ensures that Big Government thrives.
This is the Left funding a permanent opposition to taxpayers, using the taxpayers’ own cash.
UPDATE
Tim Blair notes that ABC managing director Mark Scott, who feigned ignorance of the overwhelmingly Leftist bias of his presenters, now says he’s taking inspiration from Left-wing programs in the US:

I think [Jon Stewart’s] show is brilliant, an example of satire at its
best, but does it do an adequate job of bringing people up to speed on
the news? Absolutely not. In any case, it’s not meant to. Stewart would
be the first to admit that.
But it worries me that young people in particular (the show’s audience
skews fairly young) will use “The Daily Show” as a substitute for real
news. That would be a tragedy, because it’s been my experience that most
young people are woefully ignorant of current events (various polls
have confirmed this.) One example: I recently asked a class of about 15
students why the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. No one knew.

Big Brother government, the goon squad of the Left, sure roughed up conservative groups in the US:

In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received
approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS [Internal Revenue
Service] in 90 days, no questions asked.
That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn’t be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.
In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications from
similar liberal and progressive groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data
shows.
As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groups with
liberal-sounding names had their applications approved in as little as
nine months. With names including words like “Progress” or
“Progressive,” the liberal groups applied for the same tax status and
were engaged in the same kinds of activities as the conservative groups.

Abbott’s approach is right. But it will mean gaining a mandate, however vague, before the election for what he’ll do afterwards.
The fear is that caution will stop him from asking for permission to do
what he knows must be done. Then, to maintain his “no excuses, no
surprises” promise, he will indeed not do what’s needed.
That will hurt his ability to knock the economy into shape by 2016 - and
it’s the economy on which the longevity of his government relies.
I’m less convinced by this argument:

The baby bonus Costello introduced was a flawed measure rescued by a
clever line: one for mum, one for dad and one for the country… Abbott
would be smart to use money saved from the baby bonus to help pay for
his paid parental leave scheme.

Yes, the baby bonus represents the entitlement culture which must
change. But at least it is money back in the hands of taxpayers. More
importantly, diverting the baby bonus to a parental leave scheme means
diverting money from stay-at-home mothers to working mothers, which
effectively discriminates against the best kind of child-raising and the
less affluent mothers.

Afterwards the budget reaction was summed up by one backbench realist
thus: “Even if we gave them gold bars they would still say it was fool’s
gold. They don’t believe us.”

===That evil misogynist! Credits: Bridget Abbotthttps://twitter.com/bridgetabbott/status/335002292908609536
===Wyatt Roy#Budget Reply2013 summaryTonight we spoke about two objectives of our Real Solutions Plan: first, to take pressure off households; and second, to strengthen our economy so that, over time, there’s more to go around for everyone.

Taking Pressure off Families:

The Coalition will abolish the carbon tax and provide immediate and substantial relief to electricity and gas prices.

Families and pensioners will also benefit by fully retaining the income tax cuts and fortnightly pension and benefit increases associated with the carbon tax. This will allow households to plan their futures with confidence.

This commitment is fully funded – and will be offset by equivalent reductions in government spending.

Responding to Labor’s Budget Emergency:

With the Budget detailing even more deficits in coming years and the debt ceiling of$300 billion about to be breached, Australia is facing a Budget Emergency.

Australia cannot keep running up record debt and deficits.

This is the fundamental difference between the Coalition and Labor: We believe that governments, like families and businesses, have to live within their means.

While many of the announcements made in Labor’s Budget are objectionable, the Coalition does reserve the right to implement Labor’s cuts, if needed, as part of our pathway back to surplus.

We will make further announcements about spending and savings after the release of the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook.

A Strong, Prosperous Economy:

The decisions we announced tonight are about building a strong, prosperous economy.

A stronger economy is the key to almost everything we wish for as a nation: it means more jobs, higher wages, greater government revenue, better services and, ultimately, stronger and more cohesive communities.

The Coalition stands ready to end the chaos of Labor and provide the strong, stable and accountable government that our country needs.

We offer the Australian people a clear choice between Labor’s chaos and budget mismanagement and the Coalition’s readiness to provide our country with the Plan, experience and policies that Australia needs. See our plan here:http://bit.ly/ZjyTjR
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===IFNM Daily Music Video - May 15, 2013I Remember You – Doris Day

( Rosanna Ceniccola)
===Father in heaven,I thank You for Your resurrection power at work in my life. Today, I give You my broken dreams, disappointments, failures and setbacks, and I trust that You will breathe Your life into me. I trust that You have a good plan for my future, and You are leading me into total victory in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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===I met a fairy today who granted me one wish.

"I want to live forever" I said.

"Sorry" said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that, try something else.”

"Fine" I said, "My wish is to live until Julia Gillard is re-elected as Prime Minister".

"You're a shifty little bastard, aren’t you?" said the fairy.
===The book of love is long and boringNo one can lift the damn thingIt's full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancingBut II love it when you read to meAnd youYou can read me anythingThe book of love has music in itIn fact that's where music comes fromSome of it is just transcendentalSome of it is just really dumbBut II love it when you sing to meAnd youYou can sing me anything
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===Did you know none of the employees involved in the IRS scandal were disciplined. In fact, one was promoted.

Did you know that the John Ford film was based on a short story written by a Kerryman? Now the original manuscript of the story is on display in Listowel.
===Jason Smith for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District

Jason has worked tirelessly to build on the foundation of his humble beginnings and is a responsible and respected leader in the Show Me State. In Washington DC, Jason will maintain that innate sense of his community and will bring his commonsense conservatism to the halls of Congress. Jason recognizes that government is the problem, not the solution. He will protect our 2ndAmendment rights and work to promote a culture of life. We must all work together to send Mr. Smith to Washington on June 4th.

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Check out the Next Time trailer here on YouTube:http://bit.ly/13e3eP1
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Nakba? What about the Jewish Nakba?

850,000 Jews from Arab lands brutally murdered or expelled, after confiscating all their lands and wealth. What about their rights?This graphic does not even address the 400,000 odd Jews that were expelled from the Arab world in the four decades PRIOR to Israel's independence.

That's 1.25 million Jews and their 8 million odd descendants that have been deprived of their human rights by the Arab countries!

Shameful!
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===Beloved, our God is a BIG God of abundance and inexhaustible supply. He is the Possessor of heaven and earth. He is El Shaddai—the Almighty, all-sufficient and all-nourishing one!

And in Christ, the abundance of God’s wisdom, favor, ability, strength and creativity that you need for a successful family, career and ministry, are yours to experience and enjoy.

What is your lack today? Do you need a job? Do you need more time? Or do you just feel overwhelmed by the demands of family and work?

Instead of seeing the lack, start seeing a BIG God providing for you out of His abundance, a job you’ll love, wisdom to manage your time or His shalom-peace at work and at home. Come boldly to Him today for all your needs and see His supply swallow up every lack that you have!http://josephprince.com/
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Friend,

Can you spare a few minutes today to defend your constitutional right to religious freedom - specifically when it comes to protecting life?

I am asking you this because Patriot Voices is teaming with several other organizations by asking our members to stand up for our religious freedom today, May 15.

Here's what you need to do (I promise it will take a few minutes):

Will you call your Member of Congress right now at 202-224-3121 and ask him or her to enact legislation to protect religious freedom? Specifically ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act.

I also ask that after you make this one phone call, please take a minute to post this alert on your Facebook page:

Help protect our constitutional right to religious freedom by calling your Member of Congress right now at 202-224-3121. Tell them to co-sponsor H.R. 940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act.

It is critical we stand up together on this matter. Why? I know we are facing so many other critical issues right now - the aftermath of the tragic terror attack in Boston; the unanswered questions surrounding the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya; our economic challenges - but protecting our religious freedom is at the foundation of what makes this country great.

Congress isn't doing enough to protect conscience rights, because they aren't hearing from us enough that this issue matters. That's why calling today will help put this issue front and center for them.

Today people of faith are being forced to act against their beliefs. Nurses, medical students, and other health care workers should not be threatened by the government, or entities receiving federal funds, when it comes to matters related to abortion or other services to which they may be conscientious objectors.

Think about the nurse or doctor who must help with an abortion or face losing his job.

This legislation should be easy to pass - how can Congress vote against such a basic constitutional right? But Congress needs to hear from you before it will take any action!

Can I count on you take a few minutes to make sure your Member of Congress hears from you today? Call the Capitol switchboard now at 202-224-3121, and ask for your representative by name. If you aren't sure who your Member of Congress is, please CLICK HERE and enter your zip code in the upper right hand corner. As Americans of faith, we deserve the right to live our faith not just in church on Sunday, but in our everyday life. This was the intention of our Founding Fathers. It is the birthright of every American.

Thank you,

Rick Santorum

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